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Ryanair workers have a good reason for passing passengers with too big suitcases: collect more

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When we approach the shipping doors, it is quite common that part of the airline team is responsible for looking sideways at passengers to see if We comply with the regulations of luggage and we do not carry excessively large bags in the cabin. In addition to because it is part of their work, Ryanair employees also have another motivation behind: collect more. The airline pay your employees 1.50 euros For each suitcase that detects that it does not meet the rules, a practice that the company’s own CEO itself, Michael O’Leary, not only defends, but even considers expanding. Why this happens. The Irish airline has confirmed that this economic incentive pays for its staff for catching passengers that carry luggage that exceeds the allowed dimensions. Those who catch can fall a sanction of up to 75 euros for billing it in the cellar. O’Leary justifies This policy as a way to “eliminate the scourge of passengers with excessive luggage.” The numbers that explain the business. Each employee can win up to 80 euros per month for this practice. Although it should be said that, according to the company, more than 99.9% of travelers comply with luggage standards. It should be said that the difference between what Ryanair pays to its employees for detecting a suitcase and what charges the passenger for sanction (up to 75 euros) is a considerable margin that contributes in part to the spectacular results that the airline has had. And is that Up to 820 million euros in the last quarter, shooting their shares 4.7% in the stock market after exceeding all forecasts. The growth of 7% in auxiliary income, where these luggage penalties are included, has been key next to the 21% rise in average rates up to 51 euros per ticket. Ryanair is not the only one. This practice makes employees at the boarding door also act as a kind of luggage guards. It is not for less, since if in addition to making passengers to comply with the regulations, they take a pinch, better than better. Todo esto teniendo en cuenta además que Ryanair anunció que would expand the dimensions of the permitted suitcases in cabin. Although the truth is that the practice is not exclusive to Ryanair: other airlines like Easyjet have also implemented similar schemes Through subcontracted companies such as Swissport, which pays 1.20 pounds for each pillada suitcase. The workers, who usually charge around 12 pounds per hour according to The Guardian, also face tense situations with passengers, since no one makes it funny to have to pay more just when you are going to ride on the plane. The context of the sector. Ryanair is now in a sweet moment, especially knowing that it has become the main airline in Spain by passengers with a growth of 20.6% this last quarter and maintains this country as its second most important market after Italy, with income of 772 million euros. The European Parliament Press so that airlines allow luggage in cabin and hand for free, but O’Leary predict that this proposal “will not prosper due to the lack of space in the airplanes.” According to its latest financial report, the airline operates with virtually 94% occupation flights, where approximately half of the passengers can carry two packages and the other half only one. And now what. Ryanair does not rule out increasing the incentives paid to its employees for detecting excess bulk, although O’Leary expects detections to decrease in the coming years as passengers adapt better to the standards. Meanwhile, the airline benefits from a European market with a limited capacity until 2030. “We will be at least five years old, until 2030, with the constrained offer,” Neil Sorahan accountfinancial director of the airline. This allows them to keep high rates and strict policies. For travelers, this means that we will have to take special care in the boarding gates, especially to comply with the regulations and not take an unpleasant surprise later. Cover image | Niels Baars and Anastasiia Nelen In Xataka | Ryanair’s new competition does not come from any European airline: it comes from India and has an ambitious plan

“I don’t want money. They fly without suitcases”

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Ryanair entered more than 13,400 million euros in 2024. Of them, 4,299 million euros had nothing to do with the explicit transport of passengers. That is, money that came from the “extras” that the company already offers those that must be folded if, for example, we want to fly with a cabin suitcase. Michael O’Leary, his CEO, says what happens of them (and their money). “I don’t want it”. “I don’t want any suitcase money. I prefer passengers to fly without suitcases.” O’Leary’s words have resonated in Dublin (Ireland), during a meeting with journalists, as he has collected eldiario.es. In the talk he was asked about the Internal conflicts in Europe and those who are facing the airline on the occasion of the hand or cabin suitcase. That for which Ryanair charges an extra, for which sanctions those who have not billed her And they exceed its limits and, above all, that same that Ryanair wants to eliminate. The costs. During his talk, O’Leary has insisted that suitcases cost him too much money because “we have people used to put our bags on the plane, the plane weighs more and consume more fuel.” Before taking into account the fuel, Ryanair figure the cost of a passenger at 34 euros, according to an internal slide projected in Milan and exposed by The Flight Club. That cost is more compensated with each invoiced suitcase … or not invoiced, although its CEO ensures that it would prefer that passengers forget it. To keep it in mind, bill a suitcase of up to 10 kg (allowed in free cabin by other companies) costs Ryanair between 23.99 and 44.99 euros. But if the passenger has not chosen this option in his ticket and exceeds the measures agreed by the company, the cost of sending the luggage to the winery will be 46 euros in the best case. In fact, it could reach 60 euros, as they reflect On your own website. A business. As my partner Javier Lacort explained In this exhaustive analysis From the company, Ryanair does not make money with the flight in itself. Your business is in everything that orbits around the plane ticket, from the billing of the suitcase to the soda that is taken on board, through the choice of seat or commissions to hire on its website services such as hotels or rental cars. And to this we must add that the company punishes very hard to whom the rules skip. Not only on the occasion of hand luggage, too If the customer behaves badly Or, simply, he has not made the billing for himself at home. Very soon wants to charge us If we do not wear our ticket on the mobile phone. An open battle. O’Leary’s statements come just when the debate on the hand suitcase is more open than ever. A few days ago, The Council of Europe took a step forward to impose minimal measures in the hand luggage allowed by airlines. The problem is extremely concise and coincide with the proposal of the airlines Low Cost. The road seemed marked but The European Parliament has taken the opposite sense and his proposal becomes significantly increasing the agreed measures in the other European institution. To move forward a regulation in which the minimum measures allowed are explained, it is necessary for both parties to reach a final agreement. Some changes. At the same time, Ryanair has made a very slight concession. Since this summer, they will allow handbill with a maximum size of 40 x 30 x 20 cm, after the Airlines For Europe (A4E) association, which Ryanair is a member, will sign an agreement so that the minimum of the suitcases admitted as hand luggage is 40 × 30 × 15 cm. Until now, Ryanair allowed access with packages of up to 40 x 25 x 20 cm. With the agreement, it will maintain the depth and height but let the suitcases be five wider cenimeters. This, according to BBCIt will allow expanding the capacity of the backpack in four liters, moving from the current 20 liters to a maximum of 24 liters. Yes, but. This change is not accidental. Those 40 × 30 × 15 cm to which the members of Airlines For Europe (A4E) are committed to the European Parliament Proposalthat he wants the suitcase for free but the proposed measures are, as we have seen, almost traced to which Ryanair already applied, so it is understood as a sample of good will to the changes. He Europe Council bet Retail for hand luggage although the proposed measures to travel with him in the cabin are exactly the same. That is, what Ryanair is doing is simply adapting to what seems to be the new standard. Thus demonstrates good will and facilitates understanding. Meanwhile… Meanwhile, at least in Spain, we live in a limbo. Because Justice is not fully clear whether or not we can travel with a suitcase superior to the measures that Ryanair demands. In current regulations there is talk of a lump that allows “essential” luggage but exact measures are not mentioned. That has made some judgments in our country They have proved the airline And others, however, have opted for Strengthen user thesis. The government is clear about its position: what Ryanair is doing is illegal And that’s why he fined it. Photo | Polish Presidentncy of the Council of the EU 2025 and Giorgios Savidis In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

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I do it. And you may too. Arrives with the billing zone of any airport in the world to verify that we are many, manywho tied tapes, scarves or cords to our bags to differentiate them. A striking colorful color. An old bracelet. A loop with a name. It doesn’t matter. The idea is that we can clearly identify our suitcase of those of the rest of the passengers. Mark it in an unmistakable way (or so we believe) so that according to Asome by the conveyor belt we know that it is ours. It turns out that it is not as a good idea as it seems. Well on paper … But not so much in practice. Although we are many who add tapes to our Trolleys Billed to identify them at a glance, that trick has its weak points. And the most curious thing is that it is the airport employees themselves who They are warning it. Hanging a tape or handkerchief of the ASA may help you locate your suitcase and expedite billing, but workers in charge of managing luggage can be a real complication. One that ends up lengthening the security controls of your suitcase … and affecting your Planning travel. “It can cause problems”. The warning was released recently John, in charge of luggage at Dublin airport, a huge infrastructure for which only last year they paraded near 32 million passengers. With their respective suitcases, of course. In statements To the Irish magazine RSVP Magazinethe airfield employee warns that, at least in certain cases, the signals we use to differentiate our invoiced luggage complicate the controls. To the manual. “The tapes that people bind to their bags to help identify them can cause problems when scanning them in the luggage room,” Clarifies the employee Dublin, and warns: “If the suitcase is not able to scan automatically, it can end in manual processing, which could mean that it does not reach the flight.” Result? A trick that seeks to speed up the trip and avoid losses at the airport would end up becoming the opposite: a big problem. Adds and continues of advice. It is not the only advice left by the employee of the Dublin terminal. So that the passage through the airfields is the most comfortable, fast and quiet as possible RVSP Magazine leaves three other ideas almost as easy to apply as unleashed the ties that we have been able to hang from our Trolleys. The first is in fact very simple: also remove the stickers of old flights. “They can cause confusion with the scanning process,” says John. The second is to place the wheels of the suitcase up to prevent damage while driving it. And the third, somewhat more picturesque but equally crucial: avoid the mazapanes in the travel bags, no matter how fond of these sweets based on almond. The reason? “It has the same density as some explosives, so they will remove the suitcase and call it from the plane.” Travel with luggage … and tricks. John’s is not the first advice on airports and luggage. He is not even the first to expedite the tedious process of waiting for our suitcase to appear for the conveyor belt. The newspaper a year ago The Sun published Two others to get your suitcases and other packages to appear in the luggage collection room: The first It is to place a sticker that identifies them as “fragile”, which will help them to be of the first to be discharged; The second is to make the Chek in and bill Later as possible. The latter, of course, is not suitable for cardiac … and can lead to more than one scare if the traveler does not calculate the times well. Images | Gary Bembridge (Flickr) and Friend Jad (Flickr) In Xataka | The airlines continue to charge for the hand suitcase despite the historical fine and they already warn: they will raise prices *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

Crews of less than 1.63 m need help with suitcases

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The Supreme Court has issued a sentence in which Iberia is imposed on the adoption of special measures for cabin crews that operate the Airbus A350 that the company incorporated in 2018. According to The published by Five dayscabin trunk have a swinging system that rises over the heads of passengers at a height greater than 1.80 meters. That makes lower stature cabin staff not always closing them correctly. The high court has made it clear: they need help. A height problem on board. The origin of the problem is the compartment closure system in which passengers keep their cabin luggage. For this model, Airbus designed a swinging system in which, instead of closing with a gate as usual, it forces cabin staff to lift each section of the trunk anchoring on the ceiling of the aircraft. As stated in the sentence, the problem is that these compartments are anchored at a height of between 1.81 and 2.20 meters and support a load of about 45 kilos, which “harms the health of the workers” by having to raise their weight above their shoulders. This peculiarity of the A350 adds to the fact of having to make the cabin crew that measure less than 1.63 meters do not close them from the hall “with the body inclined on the passenger seats to be able to close them.” Shared effort. The sentence of the High Court amparo to this case by imposing on Iberia “to establish organizational measures of mandatory compliance for workers with surcharge function when distributing the work in the aircraft that guarantee that the closure of the trunk with the highest ergonomic risk evaluated is carried out by two workers or subsidiarily well by two workers either by a worker with adequate stature.” For those employees who measure less than 1.63 meters, the Court contemplates “that they are helped by another worker for the louder trunk or those who carry a greater weight indicating that they must have the help of a higher -height partner to close these trunk before each flight.” In addition, to establish a work exception for the cabin crew that operates in these aircraft, the sentence forces the airline to provide uniforms made with more flexible tissues that allow the crew greater ergonomics in their movements given the difficulty when manipulating the holders. The problem is not new. The design problem of the A350s and the labor risk regulations of the cabin staff is not new. In 2022, the Iberia Company Committee presented A demand that put the focus on the control of the weight of the hand luggage that was later housed in those compartments that should be pulse elevated by the cabin crew. In that sentence, the Social Court of the National Court has already recognized that it was necessary to re -evaluate the ergonomic risk for the workers that the new work equipment (the aircraft) supposed. In that litigation, the Spanish airline recognized a “moderate” postural risk. Now, the Supreme Court confirms that sentence and forces Iberia to “adopt a technical solution to the design defect.” The touch of attention of justice. From the Supreme Court, they warn the air operator about the obligation of compliance with the sentence, since Iberia’s appeal was “inadmissibly ambiguous” arguing that “it has already complied with it”, while the plaintiffs deny that some measure has been taken to solve the problem of the trunk. The Supreme Court rejects that Iberia’s response is limited “to be replaced by a simple documentary reference to the responsibility of billing and shipment personnel” to control the weight of the luggage, and points out that this is “only a first step in preventive activity, but not its definitive conclusion” claiming “the total compliance with the ordered in the sentence.” In Xataka | The entrails of the Airbus A350-900: the injured plane in Japan and from which its 379 passengers came out alive Image | Iberia

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